The State Department approved a possible $51 million Foreign Military Sale (FMS) request to Oman for over 400 of TOW 2B missiles, related equipment and support.
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress of the potential sale on Jan. 6.
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Major defense equipment (MDE) in the requested FMS would include 400 Tube-launched Optically-tracked wire guided (TOW) 2B Aero, Radio Frequency (RF) Missiles (BGM-71F-3-RF) and seven TOW 2B Aero, RF Missile (BGM-71F-3-RF) Fly-to-Buy Missiles.
The prime contractor for the sale would be Raytheon [RTN], the producer of the missile, with no known offset agreements proposed with the sale.
Oman would use the missiles to strengthen its homeland defense and enhance interoperability with the U.S. and other allies, DSCA said.
Implementation of the sale would require U.S. government or contractor representatives to travel to Oman for multiple periods for equipment de-processing/fielding, system checkout and new equipment training. No more than three contractor representatives would be assigned to Oman at any one time and total efforts would take under 14 weeks total.